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Quill CDC Emerger

A simple, but quiet effective mayfly emerger.Tie it in different sizes and colours to match the hatch. The body of the emerger should hang deep in the surface. Never put some floatant on the body, only a bit on the thorax and the wings if necessary. With the amount of uv-resin on the quill, you can control, how deep the fly should hang in the surface.

This pattern often made my day, when other patterns were ignored.

Materials:

Hook: TMC 212Y # 13

Abdomen: Stripped Peacock Quill and UV-Resin (use tack free resin, if not, you have to coat the resin with nail polish)

Thorax: Alpaka Dubbing

Wings: CDC and for splitting some Yarn

Tie in a stripped peacock quill.

Wind the stripped quill around the hook shank and catch it with your thread.

Put a layer of uv-resin around the quill body to secure it.

Tie in a piece of yarn.

Tie in a bunch of CDC fibres.

Spin the dubbing around the thread.

Dub the thorax.

Fold the yarn to the front to split the CDC and catch it with your thread.